Show TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK the commissioners of grand find emery counties awarded to the midland bridge company the contract tor a bridge across the green river at elgin at a cost of only was available from a state appropriation and it was necessary for the two counties to raise the remainder of the cost A bunch of oil locations covering land in the vicinity of elgin was filed with the county recorder this week the locators were represented by F 3 pusey of pittsburgh capt F of iowa who operated a line of pleasure boats on lake was in moab to meet E blake and a party of ten passengers who were en route to moab from green river in blake s gasoline the blake party was delayed and capt roff was unable to t wait the arrival of the boat marrs representing the big reclamation company that proposed to irrigate some acres of land near cisco was moab visitor the moab odd fellows and re jekabs entertained at a banquet this week in honor of the fraternal visit of grandmaiter grandmaster Grand Master W J moore and wife of salt lake city A son was bom to mr and mrs W R mcconkle prof mose johnson john son of elocutionist was a visitor in moab and intended going to the natural bridges he was teaching elocution to a number of moab young folks A daughter was bom to mr and mrs L farsworth living only a few days A M rogers mining correspondent of the times returned this week from a trip over san juan county mrs sarah cannon left tor salt lake to make her home P crout and J E brown had purchased head of cattle from san juan stockmen stoc kmen brief interviews published by the times placed a large number of moab on record as favoring a special tax to complete financing the green river bridge on the theory that such a step would better chances for securing an appropriation across the grand river here among those interviewed were J E brown J H johnson thos trout A A beffa M robertson F A man valle P M shafer V P martin W D hammond H 0 green D A johnson R dark E E J W williams P crout and 0 P bryan H E blake and son elwyn of monticello and P R butt of dove creek colo passed through moab tuesday morning en route to their homes from denver where they appeared as witnesses for the government in the colorado river bed case |